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Hundreds rally to support minorities

NEWS BY CHRIS STANTON A stature of Georgetown Founder John Carroll sat at the center of a group of well over 200 students on Monday morning, as they formed a circle in front of Healy Hall and called on the administration to respond to a series of incidents of racial intolerance that rocked the campus last week.

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Sports

Curling for Columbine

As I sat down Sunday to simultaneously watch the CBS and ESPN men’s basketball tournament selection shows, I awaited hearing where my team would be headed. Unfortunately, that team is my hometown Texas Longhorns, not my beloved Hoyas.

If someone told me five years ago that I’d be certain Texas was in the tourney and Georgetown was out, I’d have called them crazy.

By the March 4, 2004

Sports

Sports Sermon

“A Mazda miata is a lunch box on wheels just before it bursts into flames.”-Andy on www.dumpdave.com

McNabb steps back, fakes a pitch to Westbrook, looks around for a receiver. He scrambles to his right, shakes off a defender and unleashes a 50 yard bomb.

By March 4, 2004

Sports

Georgetown lacrosse 6-0 over break

Both the men’s and women’s lacrosse teams stretched winning streaks over spring break and into this first week back. The women, now ranked no. 2 in the United States Women’s Lacrosse Association top-20, beat two conference foes and William & Mary, while the men defeated Cornell, Penn State and Delaware.

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Editorials

WGTB Recommends …

The WGTB staff listens to virtually every new release that comes out on CD and vinyl. They have donated their list of their best and most-played albums. 1. Xiu Xiu-Fabulous Muscles 2. The Walkmen-Bows and Arrows 3. Blonde Redhead-Misery is a Butterfly 4. Charizma and PB Wolf-Big Shots 5.

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Features

Georgetown’s Doctrine of Medical Research

COVER BY SHANTI MANIAN The country’s oldest Catholic university has been conducting research on aborted fetal cell lines for several years. What might surprise you is that this research has been sanctioned by several Catholic bioethicists and even Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, leader of the Archdiocese of Washington. While the president of the United States struggles with questions of stem cells and cloning, Georgetown University Medical Center has become embroiled in a 25-year-old debate.

By the March 4, 2004

News

Cash it in

It seems the only agency in the Washington area more inept at record keeping than the federal government is the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. In an audit report released to the public last Friday, Metro admitted that a significant amount of revenue has been lost due to theft.

By the March 4, 2004

News

News Brief

Results of a survey conducted in the fall of 2003 indicate that the drinking habits of students have changed little since the survey was last taken in 2000.

With a 73 percent response rate among undergraduates, the results indicate that the percentage of students who do not drink has declined by three points to 18 percent, and the majority of students characterize themselves as “medium” or “light” drinkers.

By the March 4, 2004

News

“Axis” speechwriter describes White House

Sarcastic but friendly, former speechwriter David Frum reminisced about his time in the White House while defending the Bush administration in Copley Formal Lounge Tuesday.

Formally dressed in a suit and a blue tie, Frum began by taking a vote on what the small audience wanted him to discuss.

By the March 4, 2004

News

Couples say ‘I do’ in Red Square

NEWS BY VANESSA MACHIR “Do you demand equality under the law? Do you promise to fight discrimination in our constitution?” an officiator asked Anna Johansson (CAS ‘06) and Ginny Leavell (CAS ‘05). Dressed in white tulle, surrounded by friends and onlookers, Johansson and Leavell answered “I do.

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